pruwybn

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 hours ago

That way it will help you sleep but you can still operate heavy machinery after taking it.

So is all this activity a sign of a looming geological catastrophe?

Not at all, says meteorologist Jonathan Belles.

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I liked the anti-LLM bit at the end, and calling it "Grand Theft Autocorrect" was just beautiful.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

At the current prime rate of 7%, changing a loan from 30 years to 50 would reduce payments by less than 10%. Just a terrible idea.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Thanks Mamdani

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who looked it up, lol

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know why but "helpo" cracks me up.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 84 points 2 weeks ago

Phoebe: "Enshittification has a specific meaning"

Joey: "Enshittification is when something happens that I don't like"

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, from a lot of the responses I'm seeing my ignorance on the matter. I'm in a big city so it's probably very different.

 
 

For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn't true.

Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.

 

I feel like it would be hard to say "brr" with an English accent, because the soft R would just make it sound like "buh".

 

...and River Phoenix played young Indian Jones in the third movie.

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